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Madsen, Harold S. – 1987
A study investigated the effectiveness of the Rasch procedure in measuring response appropriateness, especially for the detection of cheating on multiple-choice language tests. The report gives background information on appropriateness measurement and its potential uses, reviews recent research on cheating and its detection, and describes three…
Descriptors: Cheating, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Language Tests
Bell, Camille G.; And Others – 1985
In response to the need to develop reliable methods of evaluating Texas students' achievement of essential competencies, this study was designed to develop multiple-choice test items in food and nutrition in all comprehensive homemaking education courses, the semester course in food and nutrition, and all occupational methods of teaching food and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Disabilities, Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textHecht, Lawrence W. – 1980
This report presents the major available evidence to date on the validity of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT). The findings are as follows: (1) results of two content-validity questionnaires show New Jersey college instructors to be in general agreement that the test content is appropriate and important to assess; (2)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Mathematics Achievement
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Research. – 1977
The "Test Development Notebook" is a resource designed for the preparation of tests of literal comprehension for students in grades 1 through 12. This volume contains 100 multiple-choice cloze exercises taken from consumer magazines, catalogs, instructions, advertisements, and contracts; and the accompanying answer key. Each exercise…
Descriptors: Advertising, Answer Keys, Catalogs, Cloze Procedure
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
The multiple-choice test items collected in this volume were selected from questions submitted by teachers in New South Wales for the Science Library of Test Items. The collection is intended as a resource to assist teachers in implementing and evaluating courses in the first 4 years of Australian secondary school. To ensure quality in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Science, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
The second volume of test items in the Science Library of Test Items is intended as a resource to assist teachers in implementing and evaluating science courses in the first 4 years of Australian secondary school. The items were selected from questions submitted to the School Certificate Development Unit by teachers in New South Wales. Only the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Science, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1982
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, print masters of tests 66 through 91 are provided. Among the areas covered are: carbon compounds; evolution; map reading; genetics; energy; chemical formulae; electricity; graphs; metric measures; solubility; and physical separations. Many tests contain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Multiple Choice Tests, Natural Sciences
Kingsbury, G. Gage – 1985
A procedure for assessing content-area and total-test dimensionality which uses response function discrepancies (RFD) was studied. Three different versions of the RFD procedure were compared to Bejar's principal axis content-area procedure and Indow and Samejima's exploratory factor analytic technique. The procedures were compared in terms of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
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Direct linkHwang, Alvin; Arbaugh, J. B. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2006
The electronic medium continues to play an increasingly important role in the delivery of management education despite a paucity of empirical studies on its impact and efficacy. Results from a study of competitive attitudes and feedback-seeking behaviors across seven "hybrid" electronic cum live classes showed that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Multiple Choice Tests, Grades (Scholastic)
Brown, Rexford; Bowditch, Deborah – 1979
Results of a 1977 assessment of the reading abilities of approximately 1,250 adults (26 to 35 years old) are reported in this paper and are compared with results of a similar assessment made in 1971. After discussing a typical comprehension exercise used in the assessment, the paper presents the materials and multiple choice questions used in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Educational Assessment, Functional Literacy
Ebel, Robert L.; Livingston, Samuel A. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1981
This issue of Measurement in Education is presented in the form of a dialogue between Dr. Robert L. Ebel, Distinguished Professor of Educational Measurement at Michigan State University, and Dr. Samual A. Livingston, Program Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service. Alternative views on some aspects of the use of tests in assessing…
Descriptors: Competence, Criterion Referenced Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Norm Referenced Tests
Donlon, Thomas F.; Fitzpatrick, Anne R. – 1978
On the basis of past research efforts to improve multiple-choice test information through differential weighting of responses to wrong answers (distractors), two statistical indices are developed. Each describes the properties of response distributions across the options of an item. Jaspen's polyserial generalization of the biserial correlation…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Difficulty Level, Guessing (Tests), High Schools
Roberts, Sarah Jane – 1978
This guide explains the concept of out-of-level testing and suggests a formula for estimating the occurrence of floor effects and ceiling effects, within the context of models for evaluating Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs. An analogy explains floor and ceiling effects as if test items are stored in different levels in a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
ROEBER, EDWARD C. – 1967
THE PUPIL PERSONNEL WORKERS SITUATIONAL BLANK (PPWSB) TESTED THE REACTIONS OF 46 COUNSELORS, NINE PSYCHOLOGISTS, 37 SOCIAL WORKERS, AND 52 NURSES FROM A MIDWESTERN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM TO SELECTED PUPIL PROBLEM SITUATIONS. FOR 10 SITUATIONS, THOSE TESTED INDICATED THREE CHOICES EACH OF "WHAT SHOULD BE DONE" AND "WHY IT SHOULD BE DONE" FROM 15…
Descriptors: Counselors, Intergroup Relations, Methods, Multiple Choice Tests
Brennan, Robert L,; Lockwood, Robert E. – 1979
Procedures for determining cutting scores have been proposed by Angoff and by Nedelsky. Nedelsky's approach requires that a rater examine each distractor within a test item to determine the probability of a minimally competent examinee answering correctly; whereas Angoff uses a judgment based on the whole item, rather than each of its components.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Cutting Scores, Guessing (Tests)
